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In Memoriam: Richard E. Barlow

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Richard E. Barlow, a distinguished scholar and a valued member of our academic community. Professor Barlow was a frequent contributor to the journal of Naval Research Logistics Quarterly. His scholarly rigor and unwavering commitment to academic excellence left a lasting mark on our publication and on the broader field. We extend our deepest condolences to his family, friends, and all who had the privilege of knowing and working with him. He will be greatly missed.

— On behalf of the Editorial Team at Naval Research Logistics

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Associate Editor Philip M. Kaminsky named 2024 INFORMS Fellow

Philip M. Kaminsky of Amazon and the University of California, Berkeley, is being honored for academic leadership and contributions to research, education and practice of supply chain management and logistics in multiple application domains.

INFORMS Class of 2024 Fellows

Our 2021 Special Issues

Articles

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Manufacturer Encroachment With Three Flows

Cheng Zhang, Naimeng Liu, Jie Yang, 
  •  14 July 2025
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Demand Information Sharing in a Green Supply Chain Under Upstream Competition

Minghui Xu, Yiwei Zheng, Xintong Shi, Hui Shen, 
  •  12 July 2025
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Open access

New Policies Exploiting Randomness of Lead Times in Inventory Systems

Alexander L. Stolyar, Aditi Taneja, Qiong Wang, 
  •  9 July 2025
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Optimal Job Assignment With Spillover Effects

Xingyu Fu, Ying-Ju Chen, Pin Gao, Haoyu Liu, 
  •  9 July 2025
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Mass and Niche Service Competition With Heterogeneous Customers and Waiting Line

Jinting Wang, Pengfei Guo, Lingjiao Zhang, Zhe George Zhang, 
  •  5 July 2025
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Optimization modeling for pandemic vaccine supply chain management: A review and future research opportunities

Shibshankar Dey, Ali Kaan Kurbanzade, Esma S. Gel, Joseph Mihaljevic, Sanjay Mehrotra, 
  •  976-1016
  •  18 April 2024

Dynamic pricing and matching in ride‐hailing platforms

Chiwei Yan, Helin Zhu, Nikita Korolko, Dawn Woodard, 
  •  705-724
  •  15 November 2019
Open access

Data‐driven research in retail operations—A review

Meng Qi, Ho-Yin Mak, Zuo-Jun Max Shen, 
  •  595-616
  •  3 October 2020
Open access

Impacts of gray market selling on the supply chain under product upgrade and pricing flexibility decisions

Abhishek Srivastava, Tsan-Ming Choi, Aarushi Mahajan, Vivek Roy, 
  •  365-388
  •  4 October 2023
Open access

Complex exponential smoothing

Ivan Svetunkov, Nikolaos Kourentzes, John Keith Ord, 
  •  1108-1123
  •  2 August 2022
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